Tag: artist
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Amazing Aerial Tour of Tulip Fields in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is world-famous for their tulip fields. Every year from March to May the Dutch countryside transforms into a sea of colour. According to Nat Geo, the first tulip was planted in Dutch soil in 1593, and it has become a national symbol ever since. In the series below you will find incredible photographs taken…
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The Death Of Conversation: Photographing People Obsessed With Their Phones
Photographer Baby Cakes Romero doesn’t have a problem with portable tech specifically, because our devices facilitate our lives, but he believes it is making people seriously dull. He started to photograph people in company on their phones as there was a certain symmetry to them and it appealed on a visual level, but as he continued he noticed an…
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Pimping Out Snail’s Shells to Prevent Them Getting Squashed
Snails are adored by photographers and kids alike, perhaps because of the beautiful homes they carry on their backs all the time. Unfortunately, even those sturdy homes can’t protect them from people who unknowingly step on them. Some improved visibility might save their lives! To save these creatures from our boots, some compassionate people started…
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Photographer Changing Maternity Photography With Underwater Mermaid Moms
Adam Opris is a wedding and lifestyle photographer by day and an underwater photographer by night. He is always trying to push the envelope and create art through people and their stories. According to Adam, he grew up in South Florida with a love for everything outdoors and practically lived in the ocean his whole life. With that…
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Stunning Before & After Photos of Butterfly & Moth Transformations
The animal kingdom is full of beautiful and mysterious processes, but there are few that are more captivating and wonderful than the metamorphoses that caterpillars undergo to become moths or butterflies. Perhaps even more amazing than the drastic transformation is how it happens. Inside their cocoons, the caterpillars are completely liquified, retaining only rudimentary “plates”…
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Street Artist Rone Knocks ’em Dead With a Sold Out Show
Australian street artist Rone has been coloring the streets of the world with his signature style since the early 2000’s… long before other street artists like Banksy were household names. The fact that he has a fairly extensive Wikipedia page attests to this fact. Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an…
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An Origami a Day for a Year by Ross Symons!
Following on from the very popular blog we posted on the amazing kinetic origami by Jo Nakashima HERE, we also stumbled across an amazing 365 day origami project from Ross Symons. Ross decided to fold one origami model every day for a year. He described how this obsession with origami started on Instagram’s blog: “I started with the crane…
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Fabulously Surrealist World of Little People in Pictures
Surreal scenarios are commonplace in the world of artist and macro photographer David Gilliver. The Guernsey-based photographer, who began producing the little people series at the tail end of 2011, uses a DSLR camera and a macro lens to capture his unique snapshots of life in Smallville. He sources most of the figurines from the internet, many…
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Street Artist BANKSY Arrested? Again?
The interwebs was all aflutter today with news that elusive graffiti artist, political activist, film director, painter and long time fugitive that for years has gone by the pseudonymous name of Banksy, was arrested early this morning by London’s Metropolitan Police. According to reports, after hours of questioning and a raid of his London art studio,…
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Do-It-Yourself Kinetic Origami That Will Blow Your Mind!
Brazil-based origami artist Jo Nakashima has created a method for building an amazing origami object using a system of 40 paper cubes. For those of you ambitious enough to give it a try he shared a set of instructions on Instructables. Just 45 steps! If you’re not familiar with Nakashima, he runs the most popular instructional origami channel on YouTube, with…